Saturday, July 16, 2016

(CAIRO) - An Egyptian police officer was shot dead and two others were injured on Saturday morning after gunmen attacked a police vehicle in the town of Tamya in Egypt's Fayoum governorate south of Cairo, while two policemen were shot dead in separate incidents in the Sinai Peninsula.

Egyptian security sources told Ma’an in Cairo that gunmen opened fire at three policemen as they entered a police vehicle. Mahmoud Abd al-Hamid, 35, was killed in the attack, while two others were evacuated to the police hospital in Cairo’s Agouza neighborhood for treatment.

Elsewhere, gunmen belonging to the Islamic State-affiliated Sinai Province group shot dead a police officer Saturday morning in the al-Abour neighborhood in al-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula.

Daily News Egypt identified the police officer as Ashraf Motawea based on anonymous local sources, adding that he had been shot dead while walking.